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Twin Cities "receipt" flyers innovative anti-demand tactic

Postby sam » Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:27 am

Flyers distributed around Twin Cities to dissuade RNC Johns
By Jeff Severns Guntzel 9/4/08

All through Minneapolis and St. Paul a coalition called the Action Network to End Sexual Exploitation in Minnesota has been distributing fliers to raise awareness about prostitution and human trafficking in Minnesota and to dissuade visitors in town for the RNC from justifying money-for-sex as a victimless endeavor.

“As a direct service provider I see how devastating this crime is to its victims,” said Beth Jacobs, public policy coordinator for Breaking Free, an agency whose mission is to help women and girls escape prostitution and sex trafficking.

Advocates anticipate big events like the RNC with trepidation and note that before Super Bowl XLII, ads promoting prostitution on Craigslist increased from 360 per day to over 3,000.

The Action Network is a grassroots coalition of survivors, community activists, state government and non profit agencies. The flyering campaign is the opening shot of a long-term campaign.

Local ad agency Martin Williams did the fliers pro bono for the Action Network.

Go see the receipts, they're terrific!

http://www.minnesotaindependent.com/748 ... -rnc-johns
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Re: Twin Cities "receipt" flyers innovative anti-demand tactic

Postby MaggieH » Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:15 am

sam wrote:Go see the receipts, they're terrific!


Indeed!
"The assumption that "most women are innately heterosexual'' stands as a theoretical and political stumbling block for many women. It remains a tenable assumption, partly because lesbian existence has been written out of history or catalogued under disease;. . . partly because to acknowledge that for women heterosexuality may not be a "preference" at all but something that has had to be imposed, managed, organized, propagandized and maintained by force is an immense step to take if you consider yourself freely and "innately" heterosexual. Yet the failure to examine heterosexuality as an institution is like failing to admit that the economic system called capitalism or the caste system of racism is maintained by a variety of forces, including both physical violence and false consciousness. . ."
-- Adrienne Rich, in Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm

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Re: Twin Cities "receipt" flyers innovative anti-demand tactic

Postby thebewilderness » Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:02 pm

This is just exactly the way to counter the myth.
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